Healthy Seed – Healthy beginning A seed is considered a ripened ovule that produces a plant. But some plants such as potato does not have such an ovule so how is their production done? Considering this fact, let’s devise a new definition that shall fit all kinds of plants. The new definition states that seed is any part of a plant that is responsible for the production of new plants. As in the case of potatoes, buds are seeds of the plant. A seed acts for the germination of a plant as well as to disperse a new location. Moreover, it produces dormancy in unfavorable circumstances despite the fact that it has enough nutrients for survival. A seed consists of three parts: seed coat, embryo, and endosperm. The seed coat is the outermost layer of the seed that protects the seed. An embryo is a fertilized ovule that produces a new plant. A healthy seed gives a healthy embryo. An endosperm supplies nutrients to the embryo and it is enriched with starch and prot
